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Book

My brother's husband. Volume 1

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL TAGA (CEN)

Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]

Physical Description

352 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm

Summary

Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and heartbreaking look at the state of a largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it's been affected by the West, and how the next generation can change the preconceptions about it and prejudices against it.

Notes

"Originally published as Otouto no Otto by Futabasha Publishers Ltd., Tokyo, in 2014"--Title page verso.

Reads from right to left.

Subjects

Added Authors

Anne Ishii